Taregna (Bihar), July 22: Cloud cover left thousands of people gathered in this city of India’s eastern state of Bihar, Taregna, touted the best place to watch the century’s longest total solar eclipse, disappointed Wednesday but the momentary darkness that enveloped the town was enough to cheer the onlookers who burst into a collective applause.
This nondescript sub divisional town, 30 km from Patna, where ancient astronomer Aryabhatta (476 AD) had set up an observatory to track the movement of stars, was considered the best place to view the event and drew the most footfalls from home and abroad.
Astronomers, scientists besides the people in thousands had gathered for the early morning show, but were disappointed as they could not witness the actual eclipse because of a cloudy sky.
–PTI